Serie A Double-Header: Watch Games at the Marassi and San Siro on the Same Weekend

If you are thinking about a calcio double-header, you might as well do it in style.

Two of football’s greatest arenas? Simple. Three Champions League teams in one weekend? No problem.

Later kick-offs and regular trains make it easy to travel between cities to make the most of a short break to Italy.

Take the top flight’s third round of fixtures as an example, when Genoa entertain Como and Inter Milan welcome Napoli to San Siro.

Last season, Genoa pulled in an average attendance of more than 31,000 to the fantastic Luigi Ferraris, and the famous old ground is sure to be rocking when Cesc Fabregas and his team arrive on Friday, September 4.

But you can get tickets. They usually go on sale about a week in advance, starting at around €30, and you can sign up for an alert for individual matches. You do not need to be a member but buying the club’s fidelity card – DNA Genoa – allows access to high-profile fixtures. There are also hospitality packages available.

The 8:45pm kick-off means arriving in Genoa in the morning or afternoon leaves plenty of time to explore the city, see the sights, have something to eat and grab a drink or two before heading out to Marassi.

From Boccadasse to the Scalinata Montaldo and the best places pre- and post-match, check out our Genoa playbook.

There is no real rush to leave the port city in the morning, but it is worth getting to Milan well ahead of the 6:30pm kick-off at San Siro.

Trains from Genoa to Milan are fairly regular, with a couple of services an hour. A one-way ticket normally costs under £20 and can be booked through Trainline. The journey from Genova Piazza Principe to Milano Centrale takes one hour and 40 minutes.

For Inter tickets, it is worth keeping an eye on the club website as they go on sale a couple of weeks in advance. For the Napoli match, most tickets went as soon as the sales window opened, but a week and a half before the game you could still buy them. Plenty were available up in the third tier for €25, while there were a handful of seats dotted throughout the stadium and costing up to €229 depending on the stand. Hospitality packages were also available.

Inter are one of several Italian teams that use P1travel.com as a ticketing partner although their tickets will cost more. The cheapest on offer for the Napoli game were €199.

First-time visitors to Milan should definitely make their way to the stadium early. Inter and AC Milan are pushing ahead with plans to knock it down over the next few years and build a new stadium. It is a little down-at-heel in places and is showing its age, but the sheer spectacle of it never fails to take the breath away.